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submitted 1 year ago by boredtortoise@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world

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Germany has become the ninth country in the world to legalize cannabis. The new law allows individuals to grow up to three cannabis plants for personal consumption and to possess up to 25 grams of the drug. Cannabis clubs will also be allowed to grow and sell cannabis to their members. The law is expected to come into effect in April 2024.

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[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 78 points 1 year ago

Germany doing it will likely set precedent in all of northern Europe. My prediction is Denmark will follow in 2 year time, Norway in 3-4 years and Sweden likely last at 5 years, even though I think we consume more of it per capita... Swedish stance on drug use has been extremely conservative for many, many decades by now and is super rooted in the common Psyche, which is why so many die of overdoses and kill themselves if it comes out they use. The stigma is heavy.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honestly don't believe Sweden will come around that quickly. We're way too deep into prohibition to swing over like that. A majority of people do really hate drugs. This being said I absolutely think it will happen within a decade unless something goes wrong elsewhere.

[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Hopefully we in the Netherlands will finally legalize it as well instead of it being a gray area. Although that would require us to give up on beating Belgium's record of not forming a government.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry, they haven’t eaten a leader yet

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I also don't see it happening in 5 years, the government knows its policy has caused Sweden to have the highest drug related death rate but they just double down on prohibition.

Anyway, if it's not legalised in the next 3-4 years, I'm moving to Spain, I like who I am when I smoke, I like the control I have over my anxiety and the boos of life and energy I get.

[-] vorpuni@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago

Do many Swedish people treat alcohol like this or only the illegal stuff?

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alcohol is fine. Drugs being bad was just bashed into our cultural collective head so hard that it's difficult to get out of. A politician cannot speak of decriminalisation without being thrown out of every one of the established parties.

[-] vorpuni@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago

The inconsistency is revealing.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's societal cognitive dissonance at it's best.

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 6 points 1 year ago

This dude was the root of this war on drugs, here in Sweden and the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bejerot

[-] dentoid@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Motherfucking Bejeröta

[-] vorpuni@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

“book against violence in comic books”, say no more 🤣

[-] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Sweden and Finland will be among the last in Europe to decriminalize/legalize.

"Drugs are bad because drugs are bad" is too deeply ingrained into the older population. It will take years to change this attitude, even if the results of legalization in other countries will be positive.

"It just would not work here" is the eternal argument. And the only one.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile both of those country inject caffeine intravenously. I have no idea how one could possibly go through a kg of coffee a month, yet for Finns that's nearly the average.

[-] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

1kg per month sounds about right for what I drink at home.

But if I add the 2-4 daily large cups at work and a few "social visit cups" per month, I'd say that my personal total comes closer to 2kg/month.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. We'll be late.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Copenhagen loves regularly beating up Christiania too much for Denmark to make weed legal.

[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While Germany attempts to legalize cannabis, in Lithuania you can buy alcohol Mon-Sat from 10:00 to 20:00, except Sundays, where you have 3 hours window, from 12:00 to 15:00...

If it happens that cannabis is legalized in many Eu countries, I am pretty sure that Lithuania might start considering it in 10-30 years. 🙆

But oh well, I'll simply travel more. I liked Berlin when I visited it few months back. :)

[-] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

in Lithuania you can buy alcohol Mon-Sat from 10:00 to 20:00, except saturdays, where you have 3 hours window, from 12:00 to 15:00...

You literally just described Norway (with some minor differences). Anything above 4,7% can only be bought from the state owned Vinmonopolet (wine monopoly)

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 3 points 1 year ago

It's pretty much the same in Sweden. And the only places you can buy alcohol are owned and run by the government

[-] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Norway in 3-4 years

Not gonna happen

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 3 points 1 year ago
[-] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not decriminalized yet, and decriminalization isn't legalization

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 2 points 1 year ago

Not fully decriminalized no, you're right, but it has come a long way. And the step from illegal to decriminalized is much larger than decriminalized to legalized. The latter is also a way to boost the tax revenue and strangle gang income, with a slight risk of giving them legitimate revenue instead of illegal.

[-] Head@lemmings.world 27 points 1 year ago

I fail to understand how you can only possess up to 50 g of weed at home. You're allowed to have three plants and one plant produces normally over 100 g. What.

[-] ShieldsUp@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

Makes no sense at all! I just pulled 10 oz from a single plant in a 60x120cm cabinet. Guess you'll have to smoke & eat the entire plant immediately!

[-] _xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Edibles and extracts are still illegal, so no

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago
[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, the law is still very restrictive, in some ways more restrictive than before even. Calling it a legalization is pretty dishonest, it's a partial decriminalization at best

[-] orrk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

no it is very much legalization because now there is actually a legal pathway to acquiring, processing, and handling the stuff

[-] ElCanut@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

German government: "It's illegal to bake anything else than yourself"

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, but he is right, a single plant can easily produce over 100g of dried buds

[-] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

You have to destroy the surplus

[-] DarthFrodo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It doesn't make much sense, but conservatives are already losing their minds over the 25g we're allowed to carry "nooo, we're enabling drug dealers with those massive quantities". If they went for 500g at home, there would've been a lot more negative press I imagine and it might not have gone through. Maybe it will be adjusted a few years down the line.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Dear Germans,

You won't regret this as a whole but keep an eye on the old waistline.

-a guy from a place where it has been legal for a while

[-] Brocon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dear whereever you are from,

We know. Some of us live next to the Netherlands, so we already had a steady access.

Sincerely,

Your Germans

X0X0

[-] SrTobi@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

The cannabis clubs are bullshit... But I guess the only way to circumvent EU law :/ still feels like a half ass solution. Well... Better than nothing

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah dispensaries are better but is there something in particular you don't like about social club style laws?

[-] axo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's probably going to be membership/sign up fees and required unpaid shifts. For someone who might want to smoke a blunt once or twice a year, that might be excessive.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

Also the membership lists are a terrible idea in the current political climate.

[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

These are really common in Spain, IMO they're...not great.

As an old man who prefers edibles I really cant stand the smell/smoke/atmosphere.

I would really appreciate if our governments allowed us to be the adults we can be, and this would include being able to open a "more refined" dispensary for people other than who they think uses "The marijuanas".

[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

As an old man who prefers edibles I really cant stand the smell/smoke/atmosphere.

Well, you won't get that smell in German cannabis clubs, since the law doesnt permit smoking there. But you also won't be able to get edibles at a club, only buds. So if you prefer edibles you still have to make them yourself, and it will still be illegal

[-] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

So if you prefer edibles you still have to make them yourself, and it will still be illegal

Wait, you can't make edibles yourself to eat? No cookie?

[-] anivia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

No, sadly not. But of course the likelyhood of getting caught in your own home is slim, unless you do something stupid or live with people that report you to the police

[-] nexusband@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In welchem Gesetzestext soll das stehen? Mit den 50 Gramm die Zuhause benutzt werden dürfen, darf man alles machen, was man möchte. Man darf natürlich weiterhin keinen Kuchen oder Brownies mit Cannabis backen und die verteilen...

Crude translation: There is no direct mentioning on use cases in the law, just things you can't do in certain public places and selling hash browns or something like that. You can do anything you like in your home with it. And in those clubs, you are also not allowed to do anything with it, your just able to distribute a certain amount in leaf form.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think your translation was pretty good but FYI hash browns is a food/dish more similar to Kartoffelpuffer than THC infused brownies ^^

[-] Flumpkin@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What about a hash pancake?
You could quickly eat the evidence of your crime? 🌿🥞🍽️

this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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